Apr 20, 2010

Early reviews for Skating on Stilts: Stuart Taylor

"With penetrating intellect, pragmatic
sensibility, and broad counter-terrorism experience, Stewart Baker
provides chilling insights into the terrifying threats presented by
ever-more-high-tech terrorism, the maddening inadequacy of our
defenses, and the lobbies responsible for this inadequacy. He
recounts in vivid detail how the same entrenched business interests,
bureaucratic turf wars, and anti-American Euro-bureaucrats that
helped pave the way for 9/11 have continued to oppose policies that
would make us safer. Especially devastating is Baker’s portrayal of
the deeply misguided “privacy lobby” who insist on perpetuating
security dangers in order to avert highly improbable governmental
abuses. This despite the exponentially increasing likelihood of
cyber-attacks “that could leave us without power, money, petroleum,
or communications for months” and biological attacks 'equivalent
to a nuclear detonation.'"